About
Mission
PRIM’s mission is to encourage and facilitate the free creation of media works through support programs and high-tech facilities while actively contributing to the development and training of independent artists.
Vision
PRIM is a groundbreaking, inclusive artist-run centre that makes available its postproduction skills and showcases the diversity of practices based in sound and moving images. PRIM is a collaborative, stimulating and accessible workspace, an indispensable creative environment adapted to the needs of its members. PRIM is a collaborative, stimulating and accessible workspace, an indispensable creative environment adapted to the needs of its members.
Values
Openness
Engagement
We are passionate about the work of our members, collaborators and partners and we want to use our professionalism, expertise and rigor to help them throughout their creative process.
We want to play a positive role in our community, to ensure a presence and involvement in all spheres of our ecosystem.
Within the team, our employees are committed to constantly improve their work methods, to help each other and to remain united in the search for solutions.
Creativity
Sharing
Passing on our knowledge and heritage is part of our organization’s DNA. We encourage exchanges, a sense of belonging and collaboration in order to enhance the expertise of the team, its members and peers. It is also important for us to bring together and involve our partners and collaborators in the life of the organization through exchange and sharing events.
History
40 years of independent creation
Board of
Directors
Simon Gaudreau, filmmaker
– Chairman
Claudie Lévesque, filmmaker
– Vice-Chairwoman
François Delisle, filmmaker and producer
– Treasurer
Emily Gan, filmmaker
– Administrator
Annabel Loyola, filmmaker
– Administrator
Marlene Edoyan, filmmaker
– Administrator
Isabel Ramirez, Head of the Conflict and Risk Assessment Department at Miller Thomson LLP
– Administrator
Team
François Toussaint (he / him)
Executive Director – ext. 103
Philippe Le Siège (he / him)
Video Department Manager
Bruno Bélanger (he / him)
Audio Department Manager / Mixer
Maxim Rheault (he / him)
Project manager, postproduction – ext. 102
Marianne Lévesque (she)
Post-production assistant / Colorist
Émilie Blaise (she)
Audio Department assistant
Claudia Mejia Castillo (she)
Member Services and Communications Coordinator – ext. 101